Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
DAKOTA ITEMS.


Gov. Church has returned to Bis
marck.!
There are six prisoners in the county
Jail at Huron.
There is talk of prohibition paper
at Sioux Falls,
Yankton expects a shirt factory, run
by artesian water.
1t is estimated that there are 1900
soldiers in Dakota.
The quality of now wheat in the
Glendale market is first class.
The Aberdeen city council is consid-
ering the matter of street railways.
Timber in Bon Homme county is
quite plentiful and growing nicely.
A secend-class limited rate of two
cents per mile has been made on the
Northern Pacific.
L. l.. Stanbury was arrested Tuesday
at Ipswich, charged with an attempt to
commit rape.
Hundreds of valuable shade trees
were injured by Monday mornings
gale at Yankton.
The Dakota school of min es opens at
Rapids City in September with full
corps of professors.
Nels Swenson, a farmer living FIVE
miles north OF Doland, was killed by
lightning Wednesday.
A surveying party will take the field
next Monday on the Omaha and Yank-
ton, says the Omaha World.
Blue Bear, an Indian in the Yankton
Jail for highway robbery, attempted to
commit suicide Wednesday.
A car load of blooded stock was ship
ped Tuesday from noted stock farm
in New jersey to Gary, Dakota.
The threshing machine shows in the
vicinity of Sioux Falls an average of at
least fifteen bushels of wheat per acre,
Hughes county was deluged with
rain Saturday evening. There was also
some hail but not enough to do any
damage.
The average wages of teachers per
month in Bon Homme county is $33l2
and the cost of tuition per month is
S1.19 per scholar.
j. w. Holt, of Brown county, who is
now harvesting his seventh crop of
wheat, estimates this years average at
thirty bushels per acre. In 1886 his
average was fifteen bushels.
The restauranteur at Huron who has
a cont ract to feed the militia at the en-
campment expects to serve one car of
apples, 1000 pounds of coffee, ten bar
rels of beans and other things in pro-
portion.
A formal invitation has been given
by the city council to the president to
include Huron in the western cities he
visits this fall. Gov. Church was ap-
pointed a committee to send the invi-
tation.
Mrs. II. Fl. Herrick, while treating
her 3-year-old daughters eyes, by mis-
take got hold of bottle of carbolic
acid and horribly burned the child's
eyes and face. The mother is nearly
distracted.
Heavy rains undermined bridge
near Pierre, and freight of the Chica-
go and Northwestern plunged into the
chasm. No one was killed, but the
engineer and fireman saved their lives
by jumping.
Blunt's gas developments are pro-
crossing provokingly slow, theprospec-
tors having attained depth Of nearly
800 feet in blue clay. All the gas found
north of town was discovered above
this substance.
Ben Thompson, a young Norwegian
living fifteen miles southwest of Faux
ton, was arrested on the charge of
threatening to assault Dell and Mrs.
Hillman, and also for assault with in
tent to commit an outrage on Alice
Barry.
Bids were opennd at Plankinton,
Wednesday, for the construction of the
territorial reform school, and the con-
tract was let to Carter g. Co., of Sioux
Falls, for 1922, ,l95. There were six bid
ders. w. l.. Dow, of Sioux Falls, is the
| architect.
| EX-CitY Treasurer Reed, of Bismarck,
who stole $4,000 and fled, has returned
to the scene OF his peculatlons. He
was given Il royal welcome aud the
opinion is expressed that he will re-
spond by making good his shortage.
This will not be insisted upon by the
enterprising, citizens of Bismarck.
John A. Owen, president of the south
Dakota prohibition alliance, has issued
a circular requesting all pastors in
south Dakota to take up a collection
on the last Sunday in August to defray
the expense OF the campaign. This is
in accordance with resolutions passed
at the late meeting Of the alliance.
| Within radius of few miles of
Vermillion thousands Of tons of hay
are being placed in the stack. The
heaviest hay is on the Missouri bottom
and every acre possible to be secured is
being cropped. The upland hay comes
I to maturity a little later, but, like its
low-land neighbor, is eagerly sought
for.
Van Moore, a half-breed horse thief,
was arrested at Pierre Monday by
Stock Inspector George Jackson. An
organized gang of horse thieves has
been operating between Pierre and the
Black Hills for two years. Large num-
bers Of horses and cattle have been lost.
Moore has made confession implicat-
ing several others. Officers are now
on the trail, and expect to capture the